Car-coupling uncoupling device.



NL J. MORGAN.

GAR GOUPLING UNeoUPLINe DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED DEO. 15, i911.

Patented Sept. 22, 1914( lifting :mn (l) to allow for the play of tbe coupler caused by the rearward and 'forward motion o1' lateral motion of coupler when car is in motion, thus preventing tension and consequential breakage of the parts ofl the nneoupling arrangement, or in the alternative, the uncoupling of the coupler. Acooinplisliing this purpose entirely obviates the necessiti7 ol clevises and link or chain.

What clnifnas my. invention mid'desire to secure by Letters Patent, isfln coinbilmtion` n. @fargli ooup'lei', e horizontal rotatable rod seemed to the end of the een', said rod having et its inner encl an erin projecting outyzudly over the coupler, a closed eye upon sail arm'7 a single link oonneeting .eid arm and the lool; of said oonpler, said link being p'ovicled at one enel with :L vertically elongated loop which lixedly secures said link to and normally exe, 1 1 neen tenfls a distance above and below the closed eye in the projecting arm to permit longitudinal movement of the coupler Without Strain on said outwardly p1'o]eeting arm and gages an eye in the coupler look, said liook being formed as en open eye whereby the lock and link may be-attae'lied or detached without removing sax-icl lock from the eouplei1 cer or detaoliing said link from thev Tod, substantially as described.

ln testimony whereof I have slgnecl my anne to this specicationni the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MATTHEW J. MORGAN.

witnessed by- Lotus J. .ELsoN, ALEX. lFiznUNnLoH.

having et its other end n 'nook which enor removing said rod 'from the enel o' the 

